Pennant



T. SCARLET June 2, 1959 PENNANT Filed Aug. 6, 1958 FIG.2

FIG.6

INVENTOR. Ted Scarlet ATTORNEY.

PENNANT Ted Scarlet, Bergenfield, NJ.

Application August 6, 1958, Serial No. 753,488

6 Claims. (Cl. 116-173) This invention relates to pennants, banners,flags and similar devices and more particularly to an improvedconstruction of such articles and a new method of making them.

More specifically the improvement resides in the tie string members andthe manner in which such tie string members are incorporated into thefinished article. The improvement results in a simplification of theconstruction of such articles and accordingly makes for more rapidproduction and greater economy.

The objects of the invention will become apparent from the followingdetailed description thereof, which taken with the drawings herein, areintended to be illustrative of the invention, and not by way oflimitation thereof, it being understood that the scope of the inventionwill be defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 shows an improved pennant or similar article incorporating thenovel features of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a View of a portion of the pennant shown in Fig. 1, saidportion being known as the head, with only one tie string memberinserted and before securing of the hem has taken place;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of one version of the novel tie string member;

Figs. 4 and 5 are similar views, partly broken away, of the headportions of the tie string members in alternate forms of construction;and

Fig. 6 is a detail view, partly broken away, showing how the head of thetie string member is retained in the finished article, and also showingthe end of the tie string member split into two separate strings for usein tying the pennant to a pole or a stick.

Referring now to the drawings, the complete pennant 10 consists of theportion termed the head 11 and a portion known as the field 12 which aresecured together by a line of stitching 14. One advantage of such a twopiece construction is that the head can be prepared in advance with amulti-color design which is ap propriate for use on pennants for manytowns, cities and resort areas having similar climatic or environmentalfeatures.

For example, views of a pretty girl diving into the sea or of a beachscene obviously are typical of many parts of the country. Subsequentlyprepared fields individually imprinted with the name of a particularplace as required as orders are received from local vendors canthereafter be attached to the preprinted heads of suitable design.Attractive pennants can therefore be quickly and more economicallyassembled with a much wider choice of a variety of pleasing designs andcolors than would be feasible in a one piece design. It is evident thatthe quantity required for sale in any one locality is relatively smalland that the cost of producing multicolored pennants for such areaswould ordinarily be disproportionately high. The use of preprinted headssuitable for many communities therefore makes possible United ratesPatent 0 2,888,900 Patented June 2, 1959 ICE the production of variedand pleasing pennants at a much lower unit cost.

The novel features of the invention however reside more specifically inthe improved tie string members and the manner in which they areincorporated into finished pennants.

The preprinted head portion 11 is prepared as a blank 15 which includesa hem 16 which is ultimately folded back upon itself along a line ofperforations 17 and secured thereto either by sewing or by beingcemented with an adhesive of a suitable type. The line of perforationsincludes a pair of spaced slits 18. The perforations are desirable foruse with heavy materials such as felt which is commonly used in themanufacture of pennants and similar articles, to improve foldability andto mark the line of fold accurately. In softer materials, theperforations may be omitted, but they are a great convenience when usedwith stiffer materials.

The slits 18 are provided to receive two tie string members 20. Thesetie string members are novel in that they are provided with enlargedhead portions generally designated as 21. The purpose of the enlargementis to prevent the tie string member from passing completely through itsparticular slit 18 when the tie string member is inserted therethrough.

In the version shown in Fig. 3, the head portion is shaped like one halfof an arrowhead. The head portion may be shaped like a full arrowhead,such as indicated in Fig. 4 which shows a head in the form of anarrowhead with a portion of the tip removed. The version shown in Fig. 5is of T-head form.

The necessary characteristics of the enlarged head are that it must haveat leastone shoulder portion 22 which prevents complete passage throughone of the slits 18 when the tie string member is assembled with thepennant, and that the head portion must extend sufliciently fromshoulder 22, in a rightward direction as viewed in the drawings, so thata line of stabilizing stitches, if the hem is secured by sewing, maypass through the head 21 when the hem 16 is folded over to be secured tothe pennant body.

The pennant preferably consists of four pieces, head blank 15, field 12and two tie string members 20. The preprinted head blanks are preparedinitially and stored, and are thereafter matched to the subsequentlyprepared individual fields, and sewn together to form the body of thepennant. Each of the two tie string members 20 is then inserted throughone of the slits 18 until the enlarged head portion 21 prevents furtherpassage and so that these enlarged heads will lie between the hem andthe main portion of the head after the hem is folded over along the lineof perforations 17. The tie string members are then held in position asthe securing of the hem onto the head blank takes place, and if this isby sewing, care is exercised to make sure that the line of stitching notonly penetrates the layers of the hem 16 and the head blank 15, but alsothe enlarged head portions of the tie string members 20.

The tie string members are also provided with longitudinal slits 25which begin a short distance from the left end of the tie string membersas seen in the drawings and run to the rightward just short of the pointat which the tie string members emerge from the slits 18 in the finishedhead 11.

These slits 25 are provided so that each tie string member may be splitinto two separate strings 26 and 27, as shown in Fig. 6. Since the feltmaterial from which pennants and similar articles are customarilyfabricated is easily separable, this splitting is readily accomplishedby hand without the use of scissors, although scissors may be used, ifpreferred. The strings 26 and 27 may then be used to tie the pennant toa pole or stick.

The use of the novel tie string members 20 as shown and described hereininstead of the usual four separate strings, simplifies manufacture ofthe pennant and affords greater convenience by providing for severalpossible ways of suspending the pennant, the particular man ner of whichis a matter of preference of the individual purchaser and which cannotbe foretold by the manufacturer, but for which it is desirable toprovide. Some persons prefer to use tie strings to attach a pennant to astick, but others prefer to display a pennant tacked to a display boardor wall. The unsplit members 20 lend themselves more readilyto beingtacked as they are wider than the conventional tie strings and the slit25 is aconi venient guide to the exact center line of each tie stringmember.

I claim:

1. A pennant or similar article made of at least three pieces includinga head or main body portion, and a pair of tie string members, said mainbody portion including a hem, a pair of spaced slits disposed on a lineseparating the hem from the main body portion, said tie string membershaving been inserted through said slits to be retained between said hemand said main body portion when the hem is folded back upon the mainbody portion and secured thereto.

2. A pennant or similar article according to claim 1,

in which said tie string members have enlarged head portions, each ofsaid enlarged head portions having at least one shoulder to preventcomplete passage through its respective slit when the tie string memberhas been inserted through said slit, each of said head portions being ofsufiicient length to be caught by stitching when the hem has been foldedback upon the main body portion and sewn thereto.

3. A pennant or similar article according to claim 1, in which the hemis separated from the main body portion by a line of perforations whichincludes the spaced slits through which the tie string members have beeninserted.

4. A tie string member for a pennant or similar article having a mainbody portion which is provided with a folded over hem and a pair ofspaced slits disposed along the line of fold, said tie string membercomprising an elongated strip portion and a head portion, said headportion having at least one shoulder capable of preventing said headportion from passing completely through one of said slits when said tiestring member has been in serted therethrough.

5. A tie string member according to claim 4 in which the elongated stripportion is provided with a longitudinally disposed slit beginning nearthe head portion and terminating a predetermined distance inwardly fromthe opposite end of said strip, the remaining unslit portion beingcapable of being severed manually into two portions to form separate tiestrings.

6. The method of manufacturing a pennant or similar article having amain body portion including a hem and a pair of enlarged head tie stringmembers, the steps comprising perforating said body portion along a lineseparating the hem from the body portion with a series of small cutsincluding a pair of larger, spaced slits; inserting a tie string memberthrough each of said slits until the enlarged head of the tie stringmember prevents further passage; folding said hem along the line ofperforations to enclose the heads of the tie string members between saidhem and said body portion, and securing the hem to the body portion withthe heads of the tie string members caught between the edge of the hemand the body portion of the pennant.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,593,078 Jacobs July 20, 1926

